A Mexican-themed drinking party promoted by employees of the student-run Coffee House at UC Davis has roiled the campus, threatening to ignite racial tensions even as the university ramps up admission for minorities and international students.

Clad in red T-shirts and chanting slogans, about 100 UC Davis students participated Friday in a sit-in at the Coffee House, urging a boycott of the cafeteria. The protest came after some Coffee House employees promoted an off-campus party at a local park Saturday that they dubbed Cinco de Drinko, a name university leaders said had strong connotations of racism.

The Facebook event page for Cinco de Drinko included a picture of four male students, wearing sombreros, trying to hop a chain-link fence while two female students in Border Patrol attire smile.

UC Davis officials and student leaders quickly condemned the planned party, which has since been canceled. During an impromptu meeting at the Coffee House, protesters told Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi they felt unsafe on campus.

What kind of message are you trying to send? asked Edwin Roque, a fourth-year transfer student.

Katehi vowed to use education to prevent similar controversies in the future, suggesting that instructional requirements could be changed to mandate a diversity course.

"The protest came after some Coffee House employees promoted an off-campus party at a local park Saturday that they dubbed Cinco de Drinko, a name university leaders said had strong connotations of racism."

They should hold the party anyway. Just don't tell anyone where it's at. Drink a cerveza and poke the fascists in the eye.

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posted on 05/03/2014 6:27:25 PM PDT
by Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)

Liberals are a real pain in the @$$. They can be out there destroying Christmas but they start pissin’ and moanin’ when someone does something like this and pokes fun at one of their Marxist college professor created holidays like Cinco de Kwanzaa.

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posted on 05/03/2014 6:32:05 PM PDT
by FlingWingFlyer
(Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)

Ah, yes. Anytime someone does something a lib doesn’t like, they claim it’s an act that somehow promotes violence, hatred, and intimidation. Worst of all, it may even lead to *cat-juggling*.

“What kind of message are you trying to send? asked Edwin Roque, a fourth-year transfer student.”

Um, that they’re enjoying any opportunity to get drunk, and don’t have a stick up their corn holes about it?

“Katehi vowed to use education to prevent similar controversies in the future, suggesting that instructional requirements could be changed to mandate a diversity course.”

Translation: You meat-eating heteronormatives are all scum!

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BTW, Cinco de Drinko has been around for at least the better part of a decade. Maybe not the classiest event bunch of college students could throw, but hardly a reason to mandate “diversity training” (shudder) or whine that you don’t feel safe on campus.

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